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Suspected Auschwitz death camp guard arrested in Germany-Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?-Inspired by Freedom Riders, Workers Plan Caravans to Walmart Convention-Fukushima radiation kills bees – and Trees across North America-‘Worse than AIDS’ – sex ‘superbug’ discovered in Japan called disaster in waiting-Four Dead as Philippine Volcano Erupts-Homelessness rampant among US mentally illSuspected Auschwitz death camp guard arrested in Germany-Are all telephone calls... more
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“Last Address” is a quietly elegiac documentary short film by filmmaker Ira Sachs that uses exterior images of the houses, apartment buildings and lofts where a group of New York City artists who died of AIDS were living at the time of their deaths to mark the disappearance of a generation.
Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Norman René, Peter Hujar, Ethyl Eichelberger, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cookie Mueller, Klaus Nomi…the list of New York artists who died of AIDS over the last 30 years is countless, and the loss immeasurable. “Last Address” is a remembrance of that loss, as well as an evocation of the continued presence of these artists’ works in our lives and culture.
This piece includes color photographs and the short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/last-address-a-remembrance-of-loss/“Last Address” is a quietly elegiac documentary short film by filmmaker... more
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Saturday, December 1st, is World AIDS Day 2012, an annual opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against the devastating AIDS pandemic. It is a day for commemorating the 30 million people who have been lost to AIDS-related causes, to honor the 34 million people presently living with HIV and to recommit ourselves to creating a future without AIDS. From 2011 to 2015, World AIDS Day has the theme, “Getting to zero: Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.”
This piece includes a number of photographs, the documentary “30 Years From Here,” the 1993 docudrama “And The Band Played On” and a music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/world-aids-day-a-compassionate-commemoration-of-loss-and-recommitment/Saturday, December 1st, is World AIDS Day 2012, an annual opportunity for people... more
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NOTE: NSFW - Photos contain nudity. -- Details are still coming in and we will have updates as they become available.
A group of ACT UP AIDS activists shed every stitch of clothing and marched arm-in-arm into Speaker John Boehner’s Capitol Hill office this morning. The group began chanting:
“Boehner, Boehner, Don’t be a Dick! Budget Cuts will Make Us Sick!”
http://veracitystew.com/?p=46240NOTE: NSFW - Photos contain nudity. -- Details are still coming in and we will have... more
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Late in How to Survive a Plague, a fair-minded, careful history of the AIDS-activist movement ACT UP, comes an affecting montage that bears witness to the triumph and the tragedy of the New York-based group’s radical crusade — a push to get affordable treatment for a disease that, at its peak in the late 1980s, was killing millions worldwide.Late in How to Survive a Plague, a fair-minded, careful history of the AIDS-activist... more
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"Ain't I a Woman?" This question is attributed to Sojourner Truth's speech at a women's convention in 1851. And it's a question that's still relevant to African American women in 2012, as demonstrated by first lady Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention this week where she touched upon health care and women's choices.
African American women are nearly four times more likely to die of pregnancy-related complications than white women.
Nationally, black women account for 66 percent of new cases of HIV among women.
HIV/AIDS-related illness is now the leading cause of death among black women ages 25-34.
Black and Hispanic women's rates of unwanted pregnancy and abortion are significantly higher than those of white women, according to the New York-based Guttmacher Institute.
Black women are three times more likely to experience an unintended pregnancy than white women. These higher rates in unexpected pregnancy reflect a disparity in access to quality affordable contraceptive services along with other quality women's health care services.
Census report projections suggest women of color are rapidly on their way to becoming the majority of women in the United States by 2041.
While my focus is on African American women, the experiences of Native American, Latina and Asian women also have different nuances than those of white U.S. women and they need to be heard as well.
Full story at http://womensenews.org/story/sisterspace/120906/black-women-need-be-heard-health-issues"Ain't I a Woman?" This question is attributed to Sojourner... more
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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/junaid-jahangir/queer-muslims_b_1844873.html
Recently, queer anti-Zionist activist Professor Judith Butler wrote against false accusations of anti-Semitism. She presented herself as defending a Jewish ethical tradition that taught her to not remain silent in the face of injustice and to respond to the suffering of others.
Reverend Dr. Nancy Steeves, whose partner Dr. Dawn Waring just left for Bethlehem to support Palestinians and Israelis working for peace, has asserted that the Judeo-Christian tradition strongly values justice. In a similar vein, queer Muslims assert that the Qur'an emphasizes overcoming one's hatred to be just to others, even if that means going against oneself or one's family.
Many queer activists rise above their circumstances and assert their voice for justice that is not limited to LGBT issues. Belonging to a vulnerable minority, they understand prejudice and can empathize with "others." No wonder, many are outspoken activists on a whole array of social justice issues.
Dr. Butler, among other issues, has highlighted the plight of Turkish transgendered people, human rights violations in Guantanamo Bay, police violence and racial discrimination in the U.S. and anti-Semitism in Germany.
Likewise, queer Muslim activists, despite facing immense prejudice, continue their work quietly and with dignity. Their work ends up helping the very Muslim communities that so strongly shun them.
Such activists not only face social ostracism from conservative Muslim communities but at times also experience strong condemnation from others. In 2009, El Farouk Khaki experienced immense pressure and condemnation when he spoke at a Queers against Israeli Apartheid event.
Regardless, he speaks out on many issues including multiculturalism, racism and religious and racial profiling in the war on terror. His work on refuge protection includes representing marginalized groups like people living with AIDS and women fleeing domestic violence.
More at the link...
There is an interesting film
A Jihad for Love 2007 NR 80 minutes
In the Name of Allah
ocumenting the quandary of gay Muslims via the perspective of subjects from countries such as India, Iran and Turkey, director Parvez Sharma chronicles their struggles to square their sexual orientation with their faith, which forbids homosexuality. Relating their compelling tales to the camera, the subjects (most expatriates) cling to their Islamic ideals in the face of a sharia interpretation that imposes the death penalty for homosexual acts.
It's available on Netflix and is extremely informative about the dangers Queer Muslims face.http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/junaid-jahangir/queer-muslims_b_1844873.html
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'Philadelphia” stands as a landmark film in the portrayal of gays, AIDS and homophobia; the film battled long-established social barriers and helped put a heroically human face to the long-suffering gay community. Tom Hanks won a deserved Academy Award for his portrayal of a previously energetic lawyer who wastes away into a gaunt, diseased AIDS victim. Bruce Springsteen also received an Academy Award for “Streets of Philadelphia” his first-ever song written for a movie.
This piece includes photographs and Bruce Springsteen's music video, “Streets of Philadelphia.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/philadelphia-lest-we-forget/'Philadelphia” stands as a landmark film in the portrayal of gays, AIDS and... more
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Science magazine reporter Jon Cohen speaks with the Kaiser Family Foundation's Jackie Judd about the willingness of scientists to discuss the possibility of a "cure" for HIV/AIDS.
Here, Cohen highlights a report that will be released later this week that may fuel that conversation.Science magazine reporter Jon Cohen speaks with the Kaiser Family Foundation's... more
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The 19th International AIDS Conference opens here next week on a hopeful note, proclaiming that the end of the pandemic may be in sight.
Some women's groups, however, are warning that current approaches for reaching that goal won't work because they short-change women.
"AIDS-Free Generation?" bus stop ads are asking. "Not Without Women."
The ads, sponsored by the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), which organized the informal coalition of women's groups, reflect the new demographics of the scourge. Women are now more than 51 percent of all people living with HIV. AIDS is also the leading killer of women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries.
The 15 women's organizations in the coalition, representing more than 20,000 women worldwide, argue that current policies, programs and investments targeting HIV/AIDS often do not engage that new reality, said CHANGE President Serra Sippel.
"The AIDS pandemic now has a woman's shape," she said. "The demographics have changed, so our responses have to change with it, or we won't make any progress."Past AIDS conferences have agreed that any successful battle against HIV/AIDS must include measures to combat gender-based violence, child marriage, stigma and discrimination. They have recommended that HIV education and prevention be integrated into programs and sites where women already receive family planning, other reproductive health care and social services such as food aid.
Nevertheless, five years after women became the majority of new infections, most HIV programs still are "siloed," or funded and operated separately from other health care, and woman-specific programs are barely funded at all. In its 2010 global report, UNAIDS found that only 46 percent of countries allocated any AIDS-related resources specifically for women's programs.
Read more at http://womensenews.org/story/hivaids/120719/women-aids-conference-we-are-the-pandemicThe 19th International AIDS Conference opens here next week on a hopeful note,... more
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I read about this last year, it's scary. A friend of mine lives near an area where these bugs are always on her window. They try to come in but can't and you see how big they are... it's nasty! Be careful folks!!
Chagas, a tropical disease spread by insects, is causing some fresh concern following an editorial—published earlier this week in a medical journal—that called it "the new AIDS of the Americas."
More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States.
The editorial, published by the Public Library of Science's Neglected Tropical Diseases, said the spread of the disease is reminiscent of the early years of HIV.
"There are a number of striking similarities between people living with Chagas disease and people living with HIV/AIDS," the authors wrote, "particularly for those with HIV/AIDS who contracted the disease in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic."
[Related: U.S. relief program prevented 741,000 HIV/AIDS deaths in Africa]
Both diseases disproportionately affect people living in poverty, both are chronic conditions requiring prolonged, expensive treatment, and as with patients in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, "most patients with Chagas disease do not have access to health care facilities."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/chagas-tropical-disease-really-aids-145745645.htmlI read about this last year, it's scary. A friend of mine lives near an area... more
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Laboratory chimps get a new lease on life
By Kim Segal and John Zarrella, CNN
updated 4:50 PM EDT, Sat April 21, 2012
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Save the Chimps spent nearly a decade rehabilitating chimps from the Coulston Foundation
The 266 chimps were used as medical research test subjects until 2002
The animal welfare group recently transported the chimps to a sanctuary in Florida
It's the first time these chimpanzees have lived outdoors
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More than a decade ago, more than 265 chimpanzees -- including Howard, pictured here in 2002 -- spent their days at a New Mexico medical research facility being poked, prodded and confined to small cages. Then, the Save the Chimps foundation intervened. After nearly a decade of rehabilitation, the chimps were transported to a 150-acre sanctuary in Florida. CNN went along with the last group as they made the journey and experienced their first time outdoors.
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Alamogordo, New Mexico (CNN) -- Shortly after her birth, Moesha was taken away from her mother and sent to a laboratory for a life of medical testing.
Like the 265 other chimpanzees at the Coulston Foundation's facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Moesha would be poked and prodded in the name of medical research. Moesha was one of the lucky ones: She survived. Others were not so fortunate. Three chimpanzees housed at the Coulston Foundation were literally cooked to death when their enclosures heated to 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
When federal authorities found out about the facility's mistreatment of these animals, it lost its funding and went bankrupt.
That's when a team of animal welfare experts stepped in and changed these chimpanzees' lives forever.
With the help of a $3.7 million grant, the Save the Chimps organization purchased the facility in 2002 and transformed it into the world's largest sanctuary for chimpanzees. It would serve as temporary housing for the chimps until the organization could create a more permanent outdoor sanctuary in Florida.
But first, Moesha and the others -- isolated for most of their lives -- would have to learn how to live as family units. And that process would take nearly a decade of rehabilitation.
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One of the first priorities in rehabilitating the chimps was modifying their cages, known by the Save the Chimps team as "the dungeon." This gray, concrete structure housed 54 chimpanzees, most of them crammed into small, individual cages. The cages where the rest of the chimpanzees were housed weren't much bigger but they shared the space with another animal or two.
"It was six months of cutting doors into six-inch thick concrete walls so that chimps could actually see each other for the first time and meet each other for the first time," said Save the Chimps sanctuary director Jennifer Feuerstein.
Even with the new doors and skylights, the dungeon still had a dark feel to it, and resembled a concrete block of prison cells. Once the buildings were modified, the care of the animals became routine and the team began to slowly create diverse family groups for the chimps.
"The ultimate goal was forming family groups of 20 to 25 chimpanzees," explained Feuerstein, "We did it by introducing one chimpanzee at a time, so we're talking over the past 10 years thousands of thousands of introductions."
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Keith Haring ranks among the most iconic, influential and popular artists in the world. Opening twenty years after his death, “Keith Haring: 1978–1982” is a rare and in-depth look at the prolific early years that established Haring’s language as an artist, his politics and social conscience, and his open homosexuality. The historic exhibition opened on March 16th at the Brooklyn Museum and chronicles the early career of Keith Haring in New York City, through the years when he opened his studio and took his art to the streets.
Organized by the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, the exhibition traces the development of Haring’s extraordinary visual vocabulary. “Keith Haring: 1978–1982” includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, posters, subway drawings and documentary photographs.
This piece includes a number of vintage photographs, a photo-gallery and the documentary, “The Universe of Keith Haring.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/the-early-works-of-keith-haring-1978-1982/Keith Haring ranks among the most iconic, influential and popular artists in the... more
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HERE, I finally managed to blog it, but it is very personal to me. I went to medical school from 1982-86. In early 1985, as a third year medical student, I was first to admit a man with AIDS into a hospital in Peoria. He was a patient of my clinic directors partner..who had refused to see him. The directed asked me to, so I did....... He died.. They all did... ALL through my residency... It was horrific and no one was getting us meds! HERE is the story of how we got them.....
Exerpted from the Democracy Now blog that embeds the full video of Amy Goodman's introduction and interviews.
http://tinyurl.com/cuvfjkbHERE, I finally managed to blog it, but it is very personal to me. I went to medical... more
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This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of ACT UP — the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power — an international direct action advocacy group formed by a coalition of activists outraged over the government’s mismanagement of the AIDS crisis. We speak with ACT UP founding member Peter Staley, one of the longest AIDS survivors in the country; and David France, director of the new documentary "How to Survive a Plague," which tells a remarkable history of AIDS activism and how it changed the country. "I’m alive because of that activism," Staley says of the triple drug therapy he was able to take. "This was a major victory this movie tells about getting these therapies. But that was only the beginning of the battle. Now we have these treatments that can keep people alive, and there are still two to three million dying every year. There are more dying now than when we actually got the therapies to save people. So it’s a huge failure of leadership internationally. And it shows a failure of our own healthcare system." [includes rush transcript]http://tinyurl.com/77jnmswThis weekend marks the 25th anniversary of ACT UP — the AIDS Coalition to... more
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2012 video interview with Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser, now author of children's book Chrystallia and The Source of Light, conducted by Mr. Media. http://www.mrmedia.com/?p=41452012 video interview with Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser, now author of... more
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